As everyone entered the tent, Zhang Gongjin said, "Report to Li Shuai, no one is late for all the generals!"
Hearing Zhang Gongjin's words, Li Jing nodded, looked at Zhang Gongjin naturally and said:
"Mr. Zhang, you will tell us the current situation in Shuozhou!"
"Yes, Li Shuai!" Zhang Gongjin heard Li Jing's words and took out a map.
The map is densely marked with various characters, each tributary and every hill. Just by looking at the name on the map, you can see the hard work Zhang Gongjin has spent on this map.
When Zhang Gongjin took out the map, he also touched the name on the map with a little touch. Every place he marked was passed by himself.
"General Manager Zhang? You will introduce the situation of the Turks!" Li Jing looked at Zhang Gongjin and said again in a daze.
"Please forgive me for losing my composure." Zhang Gongjin took a deep breath and spoke,
"Our army can't hide the Turkic spies.
Under such circumstances, the Turkic Jie Li Khan had gathered the main force of the Turkic forces to station in Dingxiang, and subsequent troops rushed over.
So the situation of the Northern Expedition is not as optimistic as we originally estimated."
"We can't see anything, we need to touch the Turks!" Li Jing nodded, but spoke again.
"What Li Shuai means?!" Zhang Gongjin was a little surprised when he heard Li Jing's words. Unexpectedly, Li Jing had such a plan.
Li Jing looked at the map and said, "The distance between Dingxiang and Mayi is not far, only three or four hundred miles. If a cavalry attacks it, it will be three days earlier and five days later, and you should be able to reach it."
"Does Li Shuai want to attack Dingxiang in surprise?" Zhang Gongjin said with a bit of solemn expression, "Is it too dangerous?"
"Danger is naturally dangerous, but our goal is not to annihilate the Turks at once, but it is just a test!"
Li Jing looked at the map calmly and said to Zhang Gongjin with a calm expression.
"Test?!" Zhang Gongjin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. It was normal for the two armies to test before the confrontation.
"As long as you don't take the risk, it's actually not a weak force."
"Huh?" Li Jing looked at Zhang Gongjin, but said, "President Zhang also asked him to speak out clearly."
"It's like this. Although Jie Li Khan had a quarrel with Yi Nan, he still retained the main power of the Turks, especially the three elite troops were the best!" Zhang Gongjin said, "The first branch is inherited from the beginning."
Bi Khan's Turkic Imperial Guards, one of them was the Turkic Tiger Division he trained himself, and the other was the Xiaoguo Army that had always been in the hands of Princess Yicheng!"
"Xiaoguo Army?" Li Jing couldn't help but frown when he heard Zhang Gongjin's words, "The Sui Dynasty has been destroyed, where did the Xiaoguo Army come from?"
Zhang Gongjin said cautiously: "This army was a new army trained by Princess Yicheng who sent people to erode the Tang Dynasty's borders and plunder the Tang people and use the training methods of the Sui army.
It has been captured by Princess Yicheng, and I don’t know how many skills it has.
As the capital that Princess Yicheng can mess with the situation in the Turkic world, this army should not be underestimated!”
Li Jing nodded after hearing Zhang Gongjin's words.
To be honest, Princess Yicheng is the ace of the Turks who can compete with the Tang Dynasty politically.
This woman is also very powerful. It can be said that Jie Li Khan and the Tang Dynasty hated him so much. The big reason is that this woman instigated her.
"Since you don't know the specific strength of the other party, you have to touch the other party and determine the strength of the Turks!"
Li Jing said, "I will personally lead three thousand guards to evaluate the strength of the Turkic army. There is a psychological standard!"
"Li Shuai went there in person?" Zhang Gongjin couldn't help but worry when he heard Li Jing's words and said:
"Is this too dangerous? The commander is the leader of the army. How can he take risks and do rash things? It's better for me to replace him!"
Li Jing said: "The war has not started yet, and the Turks are still hesitant about whether our army will go out, so they must be not wary.
I mainly use cavalry, so I will try the Turkic combat power first. If the Turkic combat power is strong, I will retreat calmly as long as I am all cavalry."
Zhang Gongjin was relieved when he heard Li Jing's words. Li Jing was not just going to take risks when he was so angry.
As for the generals and soldiers to go to the front line to evaluate or observe the situation in person, this is really normal for the Tang Dynasty.
The main thing is the bad habit brought by Li Shimin. Compared with Li Shimin who often only brings a small team of troops and dares to investigate at the door of other house tents, Li Jing brought 3,000 cavalry to conduct combat assessments. No matter what, Li Jing is cautious.
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On the contrary, the kind of commander who has been hiding in the camp, not even doing a simple battle assessment, and even knowing how much the enemy is, and just recklessly loses the commander of the entire army. Generals like Li Jing naturally make people even more
Rest assured.
"However, just in case, you must not do anything without preparation!" Li Jing thought:
"You will lead the central army to move slowly, and let the Modao marching commander lead the main force of the East Road to attack the hinterland of the Eastern Turkic Republic.
The general manager of the Jin River Road marched along the Yellow River on the west road, echoing us from afar.
The Rencheng King has also been approaching west from Lingzhou. Wei Xiaojie, the governor of Youzhou, will gradually siege after we launch an attack.
As for the Changwudao marching general, he used the northeast to attack the rear of the Turkic Khan to monitor the Tuli Khan to avoid unnecessary trouble."
"You don't want to test Jie Li Khan's intention. You are trying to encircle him!" Zhang Gongjin looked at Li Jing's layout and said, "Why are you afraid that Jie Li Khan will fight back with such a momentum as Mount Tai is pressing down on the top?"
"I believe Jie Li Khan will be aware of this more than 100,000 army dispatched, so that they can act according to the normal marching speed!" Li Jing said calmly, "Faced with such mobilization of troops, the Turks will focus on the army.
Body.
But in fact, I have broken through and led my personal guards to attack Dingxiang, the truth is true and the truth is true, so that I can be sure to withdraw!”
"The dispatch of more than 100,000 troops is just to cover your raid..." Zhang Gongjin couldn't help but mutter in his heart as he heard Li Jing's words.
Is your actions really just to evaluate the strength of the Huns?!
But Li Jing knew clearly what he was going to do and evaluate it? If his surprise attack failed, it would naturally be an evaluation.
But if I succeed in the raid, it will not be just an evaluation!
But there is no need to tell Zhang Gongjin about this kind of thing. After all, as the leader of the army, the most important thing is to stabilize the morale of the army.
If I told everyone that I was going to raid the Huns, not to mention whether everyone would believe it, just as the commander of an army of more than 100,000, I would be too ignorant to attack the Turks personally.
So, just think that you are going to do an assessment!
Li Jing sent his orders out with scouts and notified them to the marching generals.
Of course, because there is a slight gap between the commanders, each commander receives a different time to advance.
At the same time, Li Jing led the cavalry to lie out at night and rushed directly towards Dingxiang. Three days later, Zhang Gongjin sent a large army to advance towards Dingxiang. At the same time, Li Shiji, who was in Datong, also penetrated into the hinterland of the Huns almost at the same time.
The time difference between almost every general manager received the order was less than one day, as if Li Jing had all calculated it.
The entire Tang Dynasty war machine also began to surround the Hun army at this time.
As for such a large-scale military mobilization of the Han army, it is naturally impossible to conceal the spies and horses on the grassland.
Almost the entire Turkic attention was also attracted by these Tang troops, so he naturally focused his attention on these Tang troops.
On the contrary, I am a little slow to the close environment around me.
They did not expect that Li Jing asked the Tang army to move after three days of action, so as to create a sparse density of horse scouts around Dingxiang.
Even though they are nomadic peoples, the soldiers who can serve as scouts in the army are generally elite.
In other words, the number of scouts in the army is limited, and the normal scout density is the higher the density is.
However, with the mobilization of the Tang army, there was even a tendency to encircle. At this moment, the scout density of the Turks became more sparse from the main business, but the closer they were to the Tang army, the higher the density, which actually created a surprise attack for Li Jing.
Chance!
Hiding in the mountains and forests where you can see the Zihe River at a glance, with the dispatch of the Tang army, the scouts on the river bank continued to go towards Shuozhou, but their investigation of Dingxiang County became average, even almost
No!
"Li Shuai is indeed a clever idea. In just one night, there were so many scouts on the river bank!"
A young man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist chewed on a bite of a chicken brick at this moment, and he actually felt like he was squeaking his bones.
"When will we attack Dingxiang? As long as we pass this purple water, it will be Dingxiang!"
"Feed the horse with essential ingredients, let it have a good rest after eating, get up at the third day of tomorrow, make rice at the fourth day of the day, and go to Dingxiang at the fifth day of the day!"
Li Jing looked at the young man in front of him and said, "Dingfang, I will give you two hundred crossbows. You will be the vanguard tomorrow. Do you dare to do it or not!"
Su Dingfang couldn't help but rub his hands when he heard Li Jing's words, and said excitedly: "Let me leave it to me. When I defeat the Turks, I will go to the city to have a hot meal. Although this meat brick is full, I will be able to eat a full meal.
, but this snowy day is too hard!”
"Tomorrow, put some snow water in an iron pot, add some pine leaves, cut some meat and boil it and eat it!" Li Jing said.
"Okay!" Su Dingfang was even happier when he heard Li Jing's words.
Li Jing couldn't help but smile as he saw Su Dingfang leave. He was one of the few plastic talents among his personal guards.
Li Jing turned his head to look at the meat bricks and couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly.
As the commander of the First Army, or even a military god-level figure, how could Li Jing not see the fit between this kind of meat brick and cavalry? It is almost born to be used as cavalry food.
Although the size of this meat brick itself seems to be only a dozen pounds, just cut it off and put it in a pot and cook it, and it will soon have a bowl of fragrant and delicious broth.
For the cavalry soldiers, is there any better deliciousness in the wild than this?!
Moreover, this meat brick is quite food-resistant, and a piece of meat brick almost maintains the soldiers' food demand for almost a month.
This itself is a breakthrough in the continuous combat capability of the cavalry.
In the case of one man and two horses, this meat brick can maximize the cavalry's long-distance raid ability.
To a certain extent, this thing looks simple, but in fact it is comparable to the invention of stirrups!
There is actually one misunderstanding here that Li Tai believes that this piece of meat can only be eaten for half a month, because Li Tai calculates it according to the standard of three meals a day.
But Li Jing is different. Not to mention that soldiers usually only have two meals a day, and Li Jing is boiled as a broth to drink it, which keeps warmer and fills the belly. Occasionally, some edible wild vegetables can be added, which can be crushed in military food.
Most of the food.
After all, this is meat!
Li Jing also sighed a little:
"It's just that it's easier to be stirrups, this kind of thing is too expensive.
One hundred thousand chickens and ducks can only make three thousand meat bricks. These are not meat bricks. There are not so many things to replace them with copper coins!
The King of Yue really thought that the saint was really willing to give up!
However, apart from being a little more expensive and salty, this thing really has no other flaws as military rations!"
To be honest, Li Shimin gave these three thousand meat bricks at the beginning, and Li Jing wanted to refuse.
He even wanted to tell Li Shimin that the saint might just exchange these things for copper coins for himself, and that he might even be able to inspire morale when he arrived on the battlefield.
But now it seems that there is no such thing as this copper coin.
Especially now it is the cold winter month, gnawing on the meat bricks from time to time can give the soldiers under their command enough energy to drive away the cold.
After all, this is a bit weirdly cold winter. I originally thought that the cavalry under my command had to rely on willpower to support it, but now they seem to be full, at least they won’t freeze to death!
"The flesh brick of King Yue is very good. I wonder what the medical camp will do!"
Li Jing thought about the medical camp that had been thrown into Zhang Gongjin's hands and began to look forward to this army that was on vacation with big bags and small bags.
"There are so many donkeys in your camp, and there are so many big and small bags on them. What exactly are they?" Zhang Gongjin was authorized by Li Jing to command the entire army at this moment, and soon became concerned about the incompatible medical camp.
Because the students in this medical camp are really too young, they are basically around fifteen years old.
Although the Tang Dynasty did not accept this army, anyone who brought such a group of people could not help but look at them a few more times.
Especially for this army, they probably have more than twice as much luggage as other troops!
"Report to General Manager Zhang!" Liu Shenwei said, "We are a medical camp organized by teachers and students of the Medical Science Department of Agricultural University. These donkeys are mainly medicinal materials. We are responsible for solving the problem of the soldiers' inability to adapt to the local environment and saving lives and helping the wounded.
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Zhang Gongjin nodded when he heard Liu Shenwei's words and said, "Since he has no combat power, then follow the central army when he arrives on the battlefield.
Don’t be curious about everything, just do your job as a doctor!”
"As for your order!" Liu Shenwei heard Zhang Gongjin's words and quickly nodded and saluted to Zhang Gongjin.
Zhang Gongjin looked at Liu Shenwei's attitude and nodded with satisfaction and continued to patrol the military camp.